10 Years Later, Mark Wahlberg's Big-Budget Disaster Epic Wins Big on Streaming

Mark Wahlberg has become one of the most prominent movie stars on streaming, an early shift he shared with Adam Sandler. His first starring streaming vehicle was the Netflix action-comedy Spenser Confidential, directed by Peter Berg, with whom he has collaborated on several films.

A decade after a disappointing theatrical run, the most expensive picture Wahlberg made with Berg has climbed in streaming viewership. Released in 2016, the film holds an 82% "Certified Fresh" score on Rotten Tomatoes, whose critics' consensus called it "an uncommonly serious — yet still suitably gripping — action thriller." The ensemble cast includes Kurt Russell, Dylan O'Brien, Kate Hudson, John Malkovich and Gina Rodriguez.

The movie, Deepwater Horizon, dramatizes the 2010 BP oil spill and has been compared to HBO's Chernobyl as a dramatization of industrial disaster that centers on systemic failures and human stories.

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